![]() Click or tap the Time Machine icon in the Menu bar and browse the backup files to find the one you want to delete. You can also select “Open” to delete individual files if you want to keep other trashed items. How do I delete files from my Time Machine? Time Machine has a nifty way of continuing to keep copies of versions of files as you change them even when it can’t connect to a Time Machine backup volume. These snapshots can fill up a drive, even though macOS should manage them. Why does my Mac keep Time Machine snapshots? Wait a few minutes for the local snapshots to delete. To disable local snapshots in Time Machine and remove them from your internal storage: Open Time Machine Preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar on your Mac. How to remove local snapshots from time machine? It will also stop Time Machine from creating new snapshots. For us, Time Machine waiting to complete its first backup only took around 10 minutes for a 10 GB backup. ![]() ![]() Preparing backup shouldn’t take more than 5 or 10 minutes if your Mac is new and you barely have anything on it. The first backup will take a while for computers with a lot of files and apps on them. If you’d like to see what Time Machine is working on, the only GUI solution is to open up the Time Machine System Preferences panel, where you’ll see either the time of the last and next backups, or if a backup is currently in progress, a progress bar showing how much backup work is left to be done. How do I know when Time Machine is done backing up? macOS Recovery installs different versions of macOS, depending on the key combination you use while starting up. Or use Option-Command-R or Shift-Option-Command-R to start up from macOS Recovery over the Internet. Command (⌘)-R: Start up from the built-in macOS Recovery system.
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